A Boot Recovery Disk

[Randall J Hall]

I am a licensed user of Windows XP Home Edition and want
to know how I can create a system recovery disk. I know
that Windows XP Professional Edition has a Automated
System Recovery Wizard, but what about us that own the
Home Edition? Does Microsaft has this utility for the
Home Edition?

Please provide me with my options.

Thank you,

Randall Hall

 

[Guest]

Hi Randall, yes your windows home xp edition has system restore facilities.
You will finf it by clicking on the start button at the bottom left of your desk
top, then move to All Programs and then to Accessories, then System tools
and then System restore. this is where you will find the settings for system
restore, George.

 

[Kid Rock Detroit City]

Anon your an idiot,he's asking for recovery,not
restore.If you need to recovery put in your startup disk
in the CD Rom and boot up choose r when prompted for
recovery,if your system came preloaded with XP on it then
pump the F10 key at startup to get to the recovery
screen,in their you'll find 2 kinds of recovery
NON-destructive (keeps all your files and folders in
tact,and destructive (resets the computer back to new
condition erasing everything).

 

[Guest]

http://www.computerhope.com/boot.htm#71

 

[Guest]

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-
us;305595&sd=tech#3

 

[Bob Harris]

XP can make a boot floppy, but that is really only a variation of Windows ME
(i.e, DOS), and is fairly useless if you have NTFS formatted partitions,
which is the default for XP.

The XP CDROM is itself bootable, and it contains something called the
recovery console. This is very limited, but it can fix a few common
problems. Links about recovery console:

http://www.wown.com/j_helmig/wxprcons.htm

http://www.xxcopy.com/xxcopy33.htm (near bottom)

http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/win_xp_rec.htm

Personally, I like something called Bart's PE builder, which is a way of
making a bootable CD with more power than the recovery console. Link to
Bart's:

http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/index.php?p=1

Finally, their are many LINUX based bootable CD images that can help, in
some cases. KNOPPIX version 3.6 is pretty good. Read about KNOPPIX here:

http://www.knoppix.net/docs/

However, all LINUX-based products are a bit weak in the NTFS area. Many can
read NTFS, or copy from it. only a few can make limited changes to files on
an NTFS partition.